Contrary to State’s claim, says Ma. Cristina Angela Guevarra, national chair of the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP) and the spokesperson of TANGGULAN, surfaced activist Noriel Rodriguez was heavily tortured for 10 days by the members of the 17th IBPA in Alcala.

More than 100 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) awaiting deportation at the Hajj Airport Deportation Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has renewed their appeal to the Philippine government to provide them food and medicines, as well as to immediately repatriate them.

A noted writer and artist who is also a professor at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman decried Wednesday what he said was the surveillance amounting to harassment done on him by alleged military intelligence personnel.

The statistics of deaths involving overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is rising and Migrante Middle East, an alliance of OFW organizations in the region has raised the alarm, urging the Philippine government to thoroughly investigate the cases.